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TWiT 990: Dogecoin Fort Knox - AI Cheese, SearchGPT, "Free" Facebook

This Week in Tech (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Technology, Techtv, Tech News, This Week In Technology, Twit, Leo Laporte

43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

  • CrowdStrike Outage Has Roots in Microsoft's Antitrust Problems
  • Trump proposes strategic national crypto stockpile at Bitcoin Conference
  • An AI-built vegan cheese went viral. Here's what happened next
  • AT&T February wireless outage blocked more than 92 million calls, agency says
  • Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
  • Russia Throttles YouTube Access in Latest Attack on US Social Media (GOOGL)
  • Video game performers to strike over AI concerns
  • EU threatens to fine Meta for saying Facebook is "free"
  • OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine
  • X's new data-sharing experience will train Grok with your Twitter data by default — Here's how to disable it
  • Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Jason Hiner, Owen Thomas, and Parris Lilly

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0:00.0

It's time for Twit this week in tech.

0:01.7

We've got a great panel for you.

0:02.9

Jason Heiner's back.

0:03.8

He's editor-in-chief of Z-D Net.

0:06.8

Owen Thomas from the San Francisco Business Times

0:09.7

and somebody brand new, but I know you know him from from gamer tag radio Paris Lily joins us he's

0:15.5

in security so he'll talk a little bit about crowd strike we now know what

0:19.7

happened it's pretty terrible. The AI designed vegan cheese that you're probably not going to be able to buy in stores anytime.

0:30.0

Soon an open AI decides to compete directly with Google by announcing its search gPT.

0:36.5

All that and more coming up next on Twitter.

0:39.3

Podcasts you love. from people you trust.

0:45.0

This is Twit.

0:48.0

This is Twit.

0:55.0

This is Trit, week in Tech, episode 990,

0:58.0

recorded Sunday, July 28, 2024.

1:02.0

Doge Coin Fort Knox.

1:04.0

It's time for twit this week at Tech,

1:12.0

the show we cover the week's Tech News.

1:15.0

And as always, we've assembled a very fun panel. Owen Thomas is back from the

1:19.7

He's a managing editor, the San Francisco Business Times. He is there in the asbestos

1:23.8

lined offices of the San Francisco Business Times. I Owen. Hey Leo, thanks for

1:29.1

having him back. You're not worried about that ceiling stuff it's okay you know it exposed

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